40 RxJava interview questions (and answers)

by | Jul 1, 2018 | Android, Development

RxJava has been gaining popularity in the past couple of years and today is widely adopted in the Android community. So much in fact that I can’t recall an Android developer interview in the past 3 years that doesn’t mention RxJava.

Here is a short list of the most common interview questions I have asked candidates (or been asked as an interviewee). Answers to all questions can be found further down.
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Simple RxJava mistakes and how to avoid them

by | Jan 18, 2017 | Android, Development

1. Observable creation and error handling

Consider the following example:

public Observable<Book> getFavoriteBook(User user) {
	return Observable.just(user.getFavoriteBookId())
                .flatMap(bookId -> bookService.getById(bookId))
                .onErrorReturn(throwable -> DEFAULT_FAVORITE_BOOK);
}

Focus on the error handling part. In my experience in 95% of the cases the expectation behind the statement .onErrorReturn(...); is to ensure that the method getFavoriteBook() is “safe”, e.g. that an exception cannot be thrown from it at all, as if it was surrounded by a giant try-catch.

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